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Overtook Poems - Poems about Overtook

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 "It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions,"
Quote by William Shakespea...
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Categories: overtook, star,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Candle

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As the candle burned and the old man sat watching and the thoughts

He saw it all so clear and as it passed through and the veil parted

Finally knowing was what counts and seeing them leavin...
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Categories: overtook, age, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberQuintessential Reminder of Joy

...I was in a bah humbug mood this year
When the exquisite beauty of a gold ornament overtook me
She walked me into a world of snowflakes and tinsel
Sprinkling hope and joy into my feeling mainstay
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Categories: overtook, joy,
Form: Free verse

Glooms of Gloomber Unsettling

...She said his grin was as charming
 as a Shoebill Stock.
Warning others of his lack of
beauty and handsomeness.
His presence caused others
to feel spooked and haunted
creating a situation hard t...
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Categories: overtook, adventure, character, culture, film,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberFairy Granny's Fantasy

...Tired Fairy Granny did sit
Upon the sunflower's brown seed.
As dragonfly round her did orbit,
Then from her small hand did feed.

As darkness overtook the sky,
Fairy Gran needs to b...
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Categories: overtook, age, child, garden,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberMouser Jill

...Jack and our Jill 
went up the hill
And there she broke her water.

She laid right down
upon the ground
and bore them both a daughter.

Poor Jack, undone,
had hoped a son; 
their marriage, ...
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Categories: overtook, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Miniscule male member doth bend sinister

...Miniscule male member doth bend sinister

impossible mission of mine to bare witness
whereby mine (whore rubble) puny phallic
describes a bent shaft, particularly when cap
locks on first observe...
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Categories: overtook, addiction, appreciation, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse

After Sunset

...The sun set upon the hill
Leaving meadows in the shade,
Trees lost their colour bright
As also waters of the lake.
Flowers too drooped their heads
While silent waters lay still,
No shimmering o...
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Categories: overtook, sunset,
Form: Rhyme

Nature's Harmony

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The sun set upon the hill
Leaving meadows in the shade
Trees lost their colour bright
As also waters of the lake.
Flowers too drooped their heads
While silent waters lay still,
No shimmering ...
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Categories: overtook, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnet 8: The New Jester

...The words of the many came out to a new call, soon to be damned
The words of the paper overtook the red ink and made the pages blue
The results eventually would be the words and marks of the damned...
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Categories: overtook, deep,
Form: Sonnet

Scheria

...These waves crash hard into me like I am a greater force to conquer than the very shore it swore to forever be enemies with

The storm rolls in, a cavalry of raindrops assault my skin, and I just s...
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Categories: overtook, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Michael Joseph Jackson

...Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of t...
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Categories: overtook, abuse, addiction, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDew

...The moisture from this
Morning’s dew
Supplemented natures
Humidity and hue
Plants as if living
And growing so big
Overtook the yard
Prompting me to dig
Holes of future 
Bulbs and seeds 
Era...
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Categories: overtook, may,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDivineless

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Those New Gods 
evacuate the violence
simulating patience 
they were once created 
to guide us, they overtook us 
snapped our heads off 
every time we thought of violence

Those New God...
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Categories: overtook, humanity, science, science fiction,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Saw God, But Now What

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I opened a large book- my rose to lay
aft lifted from his graveside to my breast.
Oh, yes- God stood beside me on that day
and led me to the place where it would rest.

One night I pra...
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Categories: overtook, death, god, miracle, tribute,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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